diction

Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”

“I find it hard to come up with an adequate analogy, but imagine the plain, contemporary style of Raymond Carver being garnished with the elaborate diction of Charles Dickens,” he wrote.

Along with her appearance, she also honed her acting with meticulous attention to diction and technique.

And yet, perhaps because of the strange diction, the phrase is more than just a gustatory command.

Lovers of things — food, fashion, music, diction, parties — that polite society ridiculed?